Sunday, May 22, 2016

They climbed Mount Everest and died. Australian and Dutch next victims Czomolungmy – Dziennik.pl

Climber Dutch Eric Arnold died on Friday, the Australian Maria Strydom Saturday when moving from camp, Camp 4 to Camp 3.

Both They reached their goal and won Chomolungma, but not coped with the disease AMS (Acute Mountain sickness), which occurs at altitudes above 2,500 meters above sea level, where the availability of oxygen in the air, because of the thinning of the atmosphere, too small for the needs of the human body.

in an interview with Nepalese television in January coming from Rotterdam, Eric Arnold confessed that winning highest peak of the world was his dream since childhood. Even as a young child he had over his bed a large poster showing Mount Everest – writes Reuters.

Maria Strydom had had extensive experience climbing. With the publication of her Facebook page that she won earlier Mount Ararat and Mount Kilimanjaro – indicates Reuters.

In the current season, lasting as always from March to May, climb Mount Everest from the Nepal side has already 330 people – said in a statement to Reuters Pasang phurba representative of the travel agency Seven Summit Treks.

The death suffered, however, including the victims recorded on Friday and Saturday have been four other climbers, including a Nepali Sherpa, who fell from a height of 2 thousand. meters and climber from Italy.

Since the gain of Everest in 1953. by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay death on the Roof of the World were more than 250 people.

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